Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Gaeinowski

The appellee is the administrator of his son, who was killed at the age of nine years and five months, by a locomotive of the appellant, at a grade crossing of the railroad and Loomis street, near Forty-ninth street, in the city of Chicago, on the twenty-fifth day of March, 1891.

There was such evidence as justified the jury in finding that as a long freight train was crossing Loomis street westward, a locomotive met it upon the crossing backing eastward; that the gates were not down; that the track upon which the train was, was north of the track upon which the locomotive was, and the boy,…